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Eye Corps working to end cataract blindness
People working together for one goal
Our Goal is to reduce Cataract Blindness.
Our team is made up of doctors, nurses, technicians, business executives and global outreach specialists.
Working together we are restoring sight and we are having a blast doing it.
Why? .. because we have the privilege to be "humans at our best".
Helping each other...
Changing the world
Improving the quantity, quality, and accessibility of cataract services
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The Problem
Cataract remains a leading cause of vision loss in developing countries. Cataract blindness is treatable, fixed by a 15-20 minute surgical procedure.
In developing countries, there are not enough surgeries being performed so there is a back-log that keeps increasing.
THE ANSWER: MORE Surgeries!
How do we do this?
Assist current surgeons to increase the quality and quantity of surgery being performed.
-Train more surgeons
-Provide access to equipment
- Training for nurses and assistants
for outreach screenings.
Global Cataract blindness is fixable
It will take all of us, working together empowering each other to reduce numbers
No one organization can do it all
But we are all pieces of the puzzle
Have we have found the secret to happiness?
We think so.
Being part of something bigger than oneself...
Part of a team that is doing good.
Changing the world,
One person at a time,
Touching another's life and making it better.
Working with others who are dedicated to humanity.
It is a privilege to be part of this team
To belong to something greater than yourself
Working side by side
We are made up of an amazing group of people who are dedicated to our patients and providing them with excellent care We are doctors, nurses, technicians, residents, students, administrators, scientists, teachers and super trouble shooters.
How we work
What is a cataract?
Who do we work with?
Who do we work with?
A cataract is an opacification of the eye’s crystalline lens, (which is normally transparent).
The most common symptoms of a cataract are:
- Cloudy or blurry vision.
- Glare.
- Poor night vision.
- Double vision .
- Eventually, if left untreated the vision is so poor it is reduced to counting fingers or light perception.
How is it Treated?
By cataract surgery
Under sterile conditions
Using a microscope to see the eye close up the surgeon makes an incision on the white part (sclera) of the eye. The patient white or brown lens is removed and a clear plastic lens is placed in the same spot . The eye is closed.
Sight is returned.
Who do we work with?
Who do we work with?
Who do we work with?
- Our first projects are in Tanzania
- We are partnering with Tanzanian cataract surgeons.
- Providing education, equipment and team support.
- We are a US-Tanzanian team learning from each other. A true partnership of professionals.
- Our goal is increase the number of successfully performed cataract surgeries
- to provide equipment with long term loans that have no cost to the provider just a commitment to use the equipment and have the poor included in their care.
How can you help?
Who do we work with?
How does Cataract Removal change a life?
Welcome to the team! Your donation will help bring sight and a new life to those with cataract blindness.
Sponsor a doctor.
Provide a scholarship for a nurse or technician
Donate a microscope
Donate a Biometry unit
Donate an intraocular lens
Looking for a gift that will change a life?
For Cataract Surgery
- $50 for one
- $100 for two
- $1000 sight for 20
- $10,000 a microscope
- $15,000 Vitrectomy machine for complex cases
- $100,000 2,000 people get surgery and 2000 families changed!
- $500,000 10,000 surgeries (probably more with this volume we can be extremely efficient)
Please send donations to
Eye Corps Inc
1601 Elm Street, Suite 3500, Dallas, TX 75201
How does Cataract Removal change a life?
How does Cataract Removal change a life?
How does Cataract Removal change a life?
Treatment is surgical, removing the lens and replacing it with an artificial lens.It gives vision
Indépendance
Joy
The ability to work again
Improve the economics of the family
Team work
How does Cataract Removal change a life?
Team work
Globally about 50 million people are blind, and of this figure 64% are women. This equals an age-adjusted rate of 39% greater than for men. This figure could increase to 75 million by 2020 unless increased efforts are made to prevent blindness
We could sure use your help
Looking for a gift that will change a life?
$50 gives sight for one
$100 gives two people vision
$1000 gives 20 people their vision
$10,000 a microscope
$15,000 A vitrectomy for complex cases
$100,000 2,000 people see and 2000 families changed!
Please send your donation to
Eye Corps Inc.
1601 Elm Street, Suite 3500, Dallas, TX 75201
Or Donate below
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We are here to get the job done. Look out blindness, we're coming for you
Be part of the change
Why not change the world with us! Give the gift of vision.
Empowering Doctors to do what they do best
Can you imagine studying for 6-8-10 years
- Paying your tuition
- Graduating with the honorable medical degree
- AND THEN..
- Having the skills, knowledge to treat your patients
- BUT NOT HAVING the tools, equipment and medicines necessary to do your work
- You can diagnosis but can not treat
Our job is to find these doctors and help them get on their way
For an ophthalmologist office it can take $50,000-100,000 USD investment in
basic equipment : a slit lamp, indirect ophthalmoscope 20 diopter lens, 90 diopter lens, keratometer, a B- scan and an A-scan.
For the OR a Microscope, sterilizer, instrument trays, a vitrectomy, consumables, and a consignment of IOLS.
IF a BANK won't loan you the money to purchase?
How do you take care of your patients?